Pub Quiz July 2017

It might be raining outside, but in trivia land it’s always sunny, so join us this month for an evening of fine drinks and testing questions at the Buenos Aires Pub Quiz. This month’s quiz will take place on Monday the 10th July, and it’ll be your last chance for a couple of months to enjoy Sam’s Quizmaster skills, as August’s quiz will be taken over by Richard, who’s filling in while Sam is on holiday.

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The rules:

All questions are in English; answers are accepted in English or Spanish

Three rounds of 10 general knowledge questions, one alphabet-themed round of 25 questions

Teams of up to 6 people allowed (teams with more than 6 players are welcome to play, but will have one point deducted per extra player, per round)

AR$20 per person

Prizes for the winners and runners-up

The quiz will take place on Monday 10th July, starting at 7:30pm at La Cigale: 25 de Mayo 597 (corner of Tucumán).

About The Author

By day, Sam writes about Argentine football for various publications, but a lifelong love of quizzes and a suitably pedantic personality meant that when Quizmaster Jonathan returned to England, he jumped at the chance to take over the running of the Buenos Aires Pub Quiz in May 2014.

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The inaugural event of the 2018 Americas Quiz Circuit season is upon us! You have 90 minutes to answer as many questions (in English; answers accepted in English or Spanish) as you can, on your own. You're playing for the glory of an Americas-wide ranking. And afterwards, those who want to can also play for a worldwide ranking by taking part in the Hot 100 (100 questions, 45 minutes/50 for non-native English speakers), included in the price!

IMPORTANT: you MUST register on the Quest website (link in the Ticket URL box). Create an account (if you don't have one already; those who took part in the February test event do), then navigate to the March quiz and select La Cigale as your venue. After Thursday evening you won't be able to do this, so contact Sam directly and he can add you in as admin. Questions will be printed on Friday so if you leave it later than that, we won't be able to get you in. ... See more

The inaugural event of the 2018 Americas Quiz Circuit season is upon us! You have 90 minutes to answer as many questions (in English; answers accepted in English or Spanish) as you can, on your own. You're playing for the glory of an Americas-wide ranking. And afterwards, those who want to can also play for a worldwide ranking by taking part in the Hot 100 (100 questions, 45 minutes/50 for non-native English speakers), included in the price!

IMPORTANT: you MUST register on the Quest website (link in the Ticket URL box). Create an account (if you don't have one already; those who took part in the February test event do), then navigate to the March quiz and select La Cigale as your venue. After Thursday evening you won't be able to do this, so contact Sam directly and he can add you in as admin. Questions will be printed on Friday so if you leave it later than that, we won't be able to get you in. ... See more

The pre-season event for the Americas Quizzing Circuit was a very enjoyable one last night, even if none of our proud representatives of South America bothered the top of the table (not that that was much of a surprise, given the pedigree of some of the professional quizzers taking part in the States). Congratulations to Alex for beating out Quizmaster Sam to become officially the #1 quizzer on the continent (at least until next month when the official season begins), and thanks to Myriam, Andrés, Jon and Helgi for coming along. The first event of the season proper will be on the 10th March - hope to see some more of you along! ... See more

Americas Circuit Ranking Event.

We seem to have scores from all but one of the participating venues from yesterday’s Americas Circuit pre-launch event. Those we have are all online, and many of you will have been following progress as scores started coming in around 16.00 hours EST yesterday. Anyway, it’s now circa 16 hours since play concluded and if that one venue we’re still waiting for will forgive me, I think it is time now to publish some results (let’s call them provisional).

We’re very grateful to Paul Paquet in Ottawa for a tremendously entertaining set of questions that players greatly enjoyed. We were very confident the set would be well received. It did not disappoint. And competitors returned some great scores also! If you played yesterday and need a copy of the answers, you can get them as a free download from our online store.

https://quizzing-store.dpdcart.com/

We were delighted to see a splendid turnout for this, the first event connected to a brand-new circuit. As well as the 70+ players in North and South America, we had over 60 people around the world playing-along under competition conditions (see later for scores). We’re grateful for their support. But special thanks got to the circa 40 proctors in as many venues who made it all possible, some of whom were getting to grips with the task for the first time.

We were also delighted that a lot of people will have had their first opportunity to play our monthly, internationally-flavoured Hot100 quiz (thanks again to Cristian Pop in Romania for writing that). You can also view the scores for the Hot100 online at https://quest.quizzing.com. This Hot100 is still in-play in some territories, so if you’ve played already and want the answers, please e-mail me at chris@worldquizzing.com. You should be aware also that this monthly Hot100 quiz (issued free to participants at UK and Americas Grands Prix circuits) will form part of the new ‘International Circuit’ also launching next month (i.e. in addition to the Americas Circuit). The quiz is also available at venues outside of the UK/Americas, for example in Croatia, Ireland, and Netherlands (just three of many countries that play each month).

Americas Circuit February 10th, 2018.

We heartily congratulate Andrew Ullsperger of the USA who triumphed in this first Grand Prix aimed specifically at an Americas audience AND written by a resident of those continents (Paul Paquet in Canada). Andrew’s overall score (an aggregate of his best five genre scores) was an impressive 125.7, securing top podium spot above fellow US players Patrick Friel (runner-up with 123.8) and Raj Dhuwalia (third-place with 121.5). Behind them came Yogesh Raut (4th with 120.5), Chris Miller (5th with 118.7) and Shane Whitlock (6th with 117.1). The remaining top 10 places were filled with more big name players, familiar even to us Europeans many thousands of miles away; so a big shout-out to Victoria Groce, Tim Polley, Jerome Vered, and Kaya Chua. We must mention also two colossal genre scores, Patrick Friel and Andrew Ullsperger, each with gold medal winning totals of 29.5! And look also at the medal positions in Civilisation, barring ties it could not have been closer.

We look forward to as many as possible of you joining us for the inaugural Grand Prix of the circuit on Saturday March 10th. In the meantime, anyone who missed the chance to play who wants to see how they would have got on can purchase the questions from our online store.

https://quizzing-store.dpdcart.com/

Ranking Event - Overseas results

As we said, over 60 players outside of the Americas took part. You can view their scores online. In the coming days we’ll put up an unofficial, information-only putting the two sets of results together.

We say well done to reigning European Quizzing Champion Pat Gibson who finished top with 119.2, ahead of fellow England team mate Kevin Ashman (114.5) and Scottish International Anne Hegerty (113.4). Behind them came Irish International Dave McBryan (111.3), former ‘Brain of Britain’ Barbara Thompson (105.0), and Malaysian-based Indian Movin Miranda (102.0). The remaining top 10 places were filled by Martin Wightman (UK), Ravikant Avva (Singapore), Chris Quinn (UK), and Paddy Duffy (Ireland). Well done to them. I'll also give a shout-out to Mark Preston in England who scored a very creditable 22.2 on Sport & Games – well done!

We look forward to as many as possible of you joining us for the inaugural Grand Prix of the Americas circuit on Saturday 10th March (not forgetting the UK Grand Prix at Northampton on 3rd March). In the meantime, anyone who missed the chance to play who wants to see how they would have got on can purchase the questions from our online store.